never-to-be-comforted

Updated: May 27, 2025

Madame became a frozen statue of offended womanhood! What, mon Dieu, had she done that he should conceive her to be a light woman? She, the never-to-be-comforted widow of the incomparably gallant hero of anthracite stoves and le Grand Couronné.

Bennet Copplestone - The Lost Naval Papers